Canadian actor Donald Sutherland is dead at 88. I grew up watching his quirky, occasionally bug-eyed performances. He belongs in that special and paradoxical category of talented actors of limited range who basically play themselves in every movie—alongside other greats like Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis, Gene Hackman, Sean Connery, Morgan Freeman, and Christopher Walken. Sutherland was hilariously memorable as Oddball in "Kelly's Heroes," and frightening as Matthew Bennell in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." He could be humorously idiosyncratic, as he was in "Animal House," and it's almost impossible to think of anyone else in the role of Coriolanus Snow in the Hunger Games franchise. He also gifted the world with his son Kiefer, a bad boy off camera but a compelling actor like his dad, and the driving force behind one of my favorite TV series, "24." RIP, Mr. Sutherland.
Yeah, he was a good one. Time runs out for us all, but 88 years is a good ride. RIP.
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